Dive caddy

Abstract

The Dive Caddy is a two wheeled land vehicle with it's primary purpose being to transport scuba diving equipment across tough terrain such as sandy beaches, rocky trails, and other hard to traverse, or reach scuba diving, or free diving locations. It is different than other prior carts in as that it has a breaking system for traveling down hills, And can be fitted with an auxiliary battery powered booster motor to traverse uphill, or help bring itself out of hard to exit situations, and also has a bench seat to stage a completed scuba unit for the diver to sit on while dawning his equipment. Another new feature of the Dive Caddy is that it has the ability to change tires for different types of terrain, be it sandy beaches, rocky hills, or mud, the Dive Caddy can adapt to them all.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]Not ApplicableBACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]With the increase in popularity of scuba diving for sport, came an increase in need for devices to transport all of the equipment necessary for one or more divers to an increasing number of dive sites. Typically, divers are limited to areas where they can drive to, or load their gear on a boat with a lot of work involved in getting all their gear to the actual site, or the boat. Many possible great dive sites are overlooked due to the logistics of getting the equipment to the site easily, and staged for diving. The Dive Caddy facilitates the ability for divers to load their dive gear, even before leaving home, on the Dive Caddy, transporting the equipment close to the site, and once staged there, using the Dive Caddy to get the gear to whatever actual site the diver chooses to use.[0004]2. Description of Related Art[0005]There are several other carts on the mark...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0016]The Dive Caddy is designed to travel easily over sandy areas, as some of the other carts do. It is also able to travel easily up and down trail systems well, as it is equipped with Mountain bike style tires, and a similar breaking system for slowing the loaded cart going down hills. One option for the Dive Caddy will be an optional battery powered electric motor to assist in getting out of muddy areas, or traveling uphill. It also will work very well at Motels, Hotels, Dive shops with great distances to the boat, and on Ferry Boat systems, such as the San Juan Islands in Washington State, all of which are places of great difficulty to reach for the sport diver.

[0017]An added feature of the Dive Caddy is the forward staging area where a diver is able to secure his or her assembled scuba unit, sit down on the provided seat, in front of the assembled unit, and don the unit. Under the bench seat is an adjustable leg that allows for changing the height of the seat for different sized divers. This makes donning your scuba unit much easier, and easier for your dive partner who will be assisting you.

[0021]Also, The dive Caddy has a harness system for the operator to help disperse the load of the weighted cart, and assist with controlling it while traveling on rough terrain.

Problems solved by technology

Problems with existing carts are several.

Most have very small tires that make it hard to pull the equipment over a sandy beach, or up and down rocky terrain and trails.

Another problem is not having the efficiency and convenience of pre-loading the cart at home, and being able to secure it in your vehicle ready to use once you reach the site.

Another problem is the cumbersome activity of dawning your fully assembled scuba unit once you are on site.

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